Claire Denis’ haunting follow up to her debut Chocolat is an unflinching, noir-tinged portrait of two immigrant black men (Denis regulars De Bankolé & Descas) living on the outskirts of Paris and caught up in the gritty underworld of cockfighting. “Reading Fanon did something important to my life,” noted the director, who in No Fear, No Die viscerally evokes the psychic trauma of life as an outsider in a majority-white society.

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